A beetle of the genus Canthon.
1853. Pump water is full of animalculæ, and straddle bugs don’t exist in pond water.—Durivage, ‘Life Scenes,’ p. 143.
1862. Now that I look at him, he reminds me of an old-fashioned straddle-bug.—Orpheus C. Kerr, ‘Letter’ 25.
